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Literary escape? Here’s a book list for you
With the four-day Thanksgiving weekend coming up, many of you will spend time among relatives and friends, watching football and filling yourself with turkey and everything else on the table. But some of you can only do so much football, food and family. You might need a diversion, or perhaps a literary escape. Or, you might ... MORE »
With the four-day Thanksgiving weekend coming up, many of you will spend time among relatives and friends, watching football and filling yourself with turkey and everything else on the table. But some of you can only do so much football, food and family. You might need a diversion, or perhaps a literary escape. Or, you might ... MORE »
Washington’s road to women’s suffrage: 1854
Next year will mark the 100-year anniversary of women’s suffrage in Washington … something definitely worth celebrating. Leading up to the centennial, which is November 2010, we are sharing some tidbits about the fight for women’s right to vote in Washington, and how it was finally won. In 1854, Arthur Denny proposed an amendment to the first territorial ... MORE »
Next year will mark the 100-year anniversary of women’s suffrage in Washington … something definitely worth celebrating. Leading up to the centennial, which is November 2010, we are sharing some tidbits about the fight for women’s right to vote in Washington, and how it was finally won. In 1854, Arthur Denny proposed an amendment to the first territorial ... MORE »
Thurston judge OKs pause in Eyman lawsuit
Thurston County Superior Court Judge Richard Hicks has granted the state’s request to pause further proceedings in initiative activist Tim Eyman’s court challenge of the Secretary of State’s policy of releasing initiative petitions under terms of the Public Records Act. Hicks agreed with a motion brought by a senior official of the Attorney General’s Office, Deputy ... MORE »
Thurston County Superior Court Judge Richard Hicks has granted the state’s request to pause further proceedings in initiative activist Tim Eyman’s court challenge of the Secretary of State’s policy of releasing initiative petitions under terms of the Public Records Act. Hicks agreed with a motion brought by a senior official of the Attorney General’s Office, Deputy ... MORE »
Didyaknow?…
… that you can find real gold in our State Capitol? (To be fair though, there’s so little of it that I used to tell tour groups there is more gold in my grandma’s teeth than in the capitol!) In the State Reception room hang six red French velvet curtains with a gold State Seal in the center. ... MORE »
… that you can find real gold in our State Capitol? (To be fair though, there’s so little of it that I used to tell tour groups there is more gold in my grandma’s teeth than in the capitol!) In the State Reception room hang six red French velvet curtains with a gold State Seal in the center. ... MORE »
Found it in the Archives
What can you find in the State Archives? You may be surprised… Our Archives team was going through former Governor Albert Rosellini’s papers and spotted this: Sunday is the 46th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas.
What can you find in the State Archives? You may be surprised… Our Archives team was going through former Governor Albert Rosellini’s papers and spotted this: Sunday is the 46th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas.
This Day In Washington State History
November 24, 1971
Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington State with $200,000 in ransom. Cooper was never found, but some ransom money was recovered in the snowy forest where he dropped.
Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington State with $200,000 in ransom. Cooper was never found, but some ransom money was recovered in the snowy forest where he dropped.
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